Fleming’s gardener, Ramsey Dacosta, who still works at Goldeneye (now
in guest relations) and invariably referred to Fleming as the Commander,
told me Mr Bond that, his old employer would bring conch to an
octopus at the reef, and, as in the short story, “the octopus would
return the shell.” Bond makes a brief appearance in “Octopussy” to
arrest Smythe for a wartime theft, but Smythe takes his own life, with
help from the octopus. Fleming died a much less dramatic death from a
heart attack in 1964 in England, where he is buried.

Goldeneye was the name given by Ian
Fleming to his estate in Oracabessa,
Jamaica. He
purchased the land next door to Golden Clouds estate and built his house
on the edge of a cliff, overlooking a private beach.]
The original house was a modest structure consisting of three bedrooms and
a swimming pool. Fleming's coterie of friends who visited him at Goldeneye
included actors, musicians and filmmakers